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Meraki Yoga 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training Program 2017

Our 200 hour Teacher Training program will provide trainees with a strong foundation in teaching yoga, built on strong anatomy knowledge and sound teaching methodology.

It will be a solid starting point in one’s journey to becoming a knowledgeable, competent and inspiring yoga teacher.

If this is your path and you want to support others to experience the transformative power of yoga, join our in-depth 200hr Yoga Teacher Training!

WHY TRAIN WITH US?

Lead trainer Gajjuhas more than a decade of personal practice and teaching experience. He is committed to bring you a teacher training that is relevant and applicable, packed with sound anatomy knowledge and practical teaching tips so as to empower you to teach with confidence.

Meraki is committed in providing the best yoga teachers into the industry, a 15-hours mentorship program has been put in place post the training program to help new teachers gain more exposure and build confidence in a real class setting.

Teachers Of Meraki: Estee Ng

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” ~Sylvia Boorstein

In its current popular form, Yoga has become a fitness based activity, focusing on alignment and anatomy, postural and physical progression. So it may be a surprise to many that meditation used to be an integral and inseparable part of yoga practice and not at all a separate entity that belongs in a whole other interest group. More traditionally, concentration and visualization practices were practiced integral to the general posture work, and the overall intent of the practice was more about altering your level of consciousness than it is about gaining strength or flexibility.

However, the simplest way of accessing this little known dimension of the practice is via the postures themselves, if you approach your practice mindfully absorbed in your posture and movement. The very word “Asana”, the Sanskrit term used to describe a yoga pose translates to “seat” with the implicit understanding that these postures are seats or gateways for meditation.

So when Estee Ng, new teacher at Meraki Yoga, heard Rodney Yee talking about it in one of his Yoga CDs, something shifted within her, a click of revelation which led to a deepening of her practice. She had discovered yoga two and a half years ago while searching for diets, trainings and workouts, driven by her then self esteem issues around her weight.

Naturally her early practice revolved around the more physically intense and fitness based class types. It also reflected the unsettled state of her mind. “I used to be so distracted, jumping from one thing to another within a short period of time.” Estee recalled.

Specifically, Rodney’s words as she remembered them were: “Doing anything with attention to how you feel is doing Yoga”.

What followed was a change in the way she practiced and her choice of classes. “I used to love love love Vinyasa because it keeps the cardio pumping and that adrenaline rush in the body. But i’ve recently been more inclined to be aware of my own Body and Breath, and to be present in each Unfolding Moment.” Her practice evolved to something altogether more consistent and steady, Hatha based in its long holding of static postures, each posture becoming more like the aforementioned “Asana”, realizing their potential as a gateway to profound meditation. “Yoga allowed me to settle down into my own body, helped me find peace and calmness within myself. “

And this peace and calmness was felt even off the mat, impacting a deep positive change to her life. The biggest decision that came from this shift in mindset? Becoming a yoga teacher. “Yoga has taught me so much: Taking a step back in difficult situations, learning the wonders of going slow and steady – basically these principles are what got me into taking the Teacher Training, to further impart my knowledge and of course sharing my practice with everyone.”As a teacher Estee radiates warmth and enthusiasm, always with the biggest smile in the room. Her classes typically begin with a pranayama session, a way to calm her students down from the mental distractions of the day, and also a way of centering herself for the practice. Estee has chosen Meraki Yoga as the platform for her teaching because of the how the environment, staff and students resonate with what she holds dear. “LOVE THE VIBES in meraki: everything feels positive, the studio itself, the students, the teachers. everyone here is so open to learning. the students eagerness to learn something new makes the entire teaching so much more interesting.”Estee currently conducts Hatha, YinYang and Core classes. Let’s welcome our newest member to the team!

Farewell Stella!

Join Stella on a special 90min class before she embark on her new journey!

In the first half of the class, we will explore two types of breathing techniques – Belly Breathing and Lateral Breathing. The mechanics of these techniques will be discussed and we will learn how to incorporate them into our yoga practice and daily living.

In the second half of the class, we will look at some perspectives of how to bear weight on your arms. The anatomy of the shoulder joints, their surrounding musculature and the scapulohumeral rhythm will be discussed. Towards the end of the class, we will practice static stretching and self-myofascial release as a form of recovery.

Detox Yoga Workshop

Join Meraki Yoga and Balanced Living this 18 March for a collaborative event featuring Meraki Yoga Teacher Priyan Nithya with a detox flow yoga session followed by a detox workshop held by Balanced Living Naturopath Tiffany Wee.

What’s Included:

-1 yoga class

-Learn why detox is important and how to do it safely

-Learn simple ways to naturally detox at home

-How detox and yoga benefit each other

-Live demonstration of a detoxifying green juice and sampling after

Detox with us in this fun and informative workshop! You will be provided with all materials needed to experience the power of food at it’s best.

This workshop will take your mind, body and spirit through a full detox. Yoga is well renowned for it’s many effective techniques at removing toxins out of the tissues of the body and organs, cleansing the digestive system, and kick starting the immune system.

This workshop will leave you feeling cleansed, motivated, and ready to achieve all of your 2017 goals!

Upside Down with Gajju!

This 2 hour workshop will take you through an exciting journey of inversions! You will discover everything you need to know to turn your practice upside down.

Walk away with the the skills and confidence to challenge yourself and some tools to take back into class with you.

In this workshop, we will work on shoulderstand, headstand and forearm stand.

You will learn how to build up to these poses safely and build your confidence to trust yourself and discover the power of your core that will provide a solid foundation for intermediate inversions and beyond.

This smaller group workshop will provide a greater opportunity for hands on adjustments and assistance. You will have the opportunity to gain insight into challenges that you may face physically in your body, whether through injury, muscle tightness or muscle weakness.

Perfect for both students new to inverting and seasoned inverters looking to perfect the basics.

Teachers Of Meraki: Yvonne Yan

The doors of the second floor studio opened and out poured the full class of yogis aflush with the heat and intensity from a Meraki signature class, Hot Classic Too, a variation of the Hot Classic series of 26 postures. Last to emerge is its brainchild Yvonne Yan, who started the class in October last year.

Yvonne is the managing teacher and poster girl of Meraki Yoga. She is a powerhouse in a petite package, known for conducting her classes with boundless and infectious enthusiasm and energy. Adored by all, getting a spot in her classes almost always requires an advanced booking as spots fill up fast.

Since starting her yoga journey in 2009, the practice has seen many changes in her health and wellbeing. “As a non-physically active person, the most obvious change in my body is definitely the physical strength and flexibility that I have gained from the practice. On a more subtle level, I feel energised, I sleep better and definitely benefitted from a quieter state of mind.” She said.

Having gained these benefits, Yvonne took a very important decision of taking the role and responsibility of a person that spreads these benefits to others via her teaching and entrepreneurial efforts. “A trip to my ashram in India ignited the spark,” she recounted, “My first students were my colleagues in the office! It was definitely nerve wrecking to stand in front of your co-workers or even your boss and telling them what to do. It’s been 4 years since I started teaching, I am glad to say I have gotten over the nerves of public speaking/ instructing.”

She has since become managing teacher at Meraki Yoga, a beautiful boutique studio set in some of the most tranquil surroundings in Singapore, tucked away in the One North enclave, known for its intimate class sizes and calm, clean spaces.

With class sizes kept in the range of 9-20, a typical yogi’s practice is almost always within reach of the teacher, and the Yogi does not get lost in a nameless crowd. Meraki yogis form long term bonds with the teachers and with each other. The feeling of a community or a close knit family is very palpable, “The small class size in Meraki Yoga provides a great platform to sincerely know each and every student individually as a person, to help them in their practice, witness their journey and to have a very trusting relationship with them. I love that as teacher and students in Meraki, we grow together!”

Yvonne thrives in this environment, connecting with each and every person in her class and being a part of the student’s growth and development every step of the way, always within her watchful eye ensuring they practice safely and effectively.

Ironically, her favorite class type is not Hot Classic or even Hot Classic Too. She enjoys practicing plain vanilla Hatha the most, reflecting her shift from her practice being fitness centric in the initial years, to a more holistic one that encompasses deeper layers of her wellbeing. “Ha means Sun and Tha means Moon in Sanskrit, in oriental terms, it means Yin and Yang. A good hatha class balances our yin and our yang energies, gives us strength, purifies us and prepares us for meditation / relaxation.”

Moving forward, Yvonne hopes to further her theoretical and practical knowledge towards increasing her teaching capability. “Continuous education and self study is always in the works.” She said. “As a student I should try and make more time to sit in stillness. To serve others as a teacher, I’d stay dedicated to my personal practice with as many different teachers so I can share a little of their greatness with my students!”

Join Yvonne on the mat in one of her yoga classes at Meraki Yoga today!

Meraki 3rd Anniversary! YAY!

You are cordially invited to attend our party as we commemorate these past 3 years of hard work and success! We couldn’t have done it without the support of our partners and members! You guys are the star of our party!

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Wheel Yoga Workshop

The Yoga Wheel is an extraordinary prop used for deepening your backbends and gaining flexibility in the shoulders, chest, hip flexor and quads. It does so safely and painlessly by supporting your spine and stabilizing your back so that backbends are achieved with minimal compression between the spinal vertebrae. In addition to making backbends more accessible, it also serves as a prop for learning inversions and arm balances.Read MoreRead More